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(fl c. 1347). Italian painter. He was mentioned in a Pistoia document of c. 1347 as ‘master Stefano in the house of the friar’s preacher’ and was numbered among the Florentine masters best able to execute the high altarpiece for S Giovanni Fuorcivitas, Pistoia. In a novella by Francesco Sacchetti, written probably between 1388 and 1395, he is included among the possible contenders for the title of the greatest painter after Giotto. Filippo Villani, in his Liber de origine Florentinae et eiusdem famosis civibus (1375–1404), characterized Stefano as the ‘ape of nature’ because ‘he imitated nature so effectively that … in human bodies represented by him the arteries, veins, sinews, and every most minute lineament are accurately disposed as by physicians’. In the Commentarii, Lorenzo Ghiberti attributed to him frescoes in Assisi and Florence. Of these the unfinished Celestial Glory (destr. 1622) may be the painting described by Vasari as being in the ‘Cappella Maggiore’ of the Lower Church of S Francesco, Assisi. A painting of ...